Articles Tagged 'Mark Rylance'

We’ve finally got sight of Simon Pegg in the movie of best-selling sci-fi novel Ready Player One, thanks to set photos released exclusively through Empire on Monday (February 19). The Mission: Impossible star plays inventor Ogden “Og” Morrow, who works with the maverick James Halliday (Mark Rylance) to create the OASIS, a virtual reality game where people in the […]

We’ve got our first glimpse at a future dystopian version of Mark Rylance in the trailer for Ready Player One released yesterday (December 10). Rylance plays James Halliday, the creator of OASIS, a virtual reality world that people in the year 2045 engage in various activities to escape their real lives. The film is an adaptation of Ernest […]

We briefly met the Big Friendly Giant (BFG) in an earlier clip, but this time around we get a proper introduction. An orphaned girl (Ruby Barnhill) meets the BFG (Mark Rylance) in Roald Dahl’s story The BFG, soon to hit the big screen courtesy of director Steven Spielberg, but she didn’t really know what to make of […]

Mark Rylance and Steven Spielberg may be the new bromance in town. The two worked together on the film Bridge of Spies, which won Rylance the 2016 Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. We can listen for Rylance as the voice of the big friendly giant in the film adaptation of Roald Dahl‘s […]

Last night’s ceremony at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater saw some long-anticipated wins: Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar for survival epic The Revenant after six (six!) nominations, Brie Larson was named Best Actress for Room, and Mad Max: Fury Road was the big winner of the night, scooping up six awards. But it was the category of […]

Director Steven Spielberg has teamed up with Disney to adapt British author Roald Dahl’s story The BFG for the big screen. And what does BFG actually stand for? Big Friendly Giant, of course. Dahl’s story of the BFG first appeared in 1975’s Danny, the Champion of the World, and a stand-alone book was published in […]

British actor Mark Rylance gives an outstanding turn with his portrayal of a Russian spy operating in the U.S. in Steven Spielberg’s new Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies. When the actor is asked how he rates working with Spielberg, he responds: “Oh terrible, absolutely terrible, the lowest of the low!” He is, of course, […]

This Sunday (April 5), the recent BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Out The Bodies comes to PBS, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. It’s the story of Thomas Cromwell, a lawyer and former mercenary from a poor background who ended up becoming an advisor first to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, and then […]

The BBC have released the first trailer for the upcoming six-part drama Wolf Hall, featuring Damian Lewis of Homeland in the role of England’s most notorious king, Henry VIII. Based on the bestselling series of novels by Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall tells the story of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell, the trusted advisor to Henry who was a key […]

Let’s not squiff-squiddle around, this is no time for gobblefunking. There’s a new, live-action adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book The BFG, directed by Steven Speilberg, and he has cast one of Britain’s mightiest thespian talents in the lead role. Mark Rylance—winner of the Olivier Award twice and the Tony three times—will play the […]